The more exposure people have to the realities of factory farming, the more we will see people rejecting it. It's already happening.

I wanted to cry but I didn't, I probably should have cried, I should have drowned us there in the room ending our suffering.

Oskar Schell: If the sun were to explode, you wouldn't even know about it for 8 minutes because thats how long it takes for light to travel to us. For eight minutes the world would still be bright and it would still feel warm. It was a year since my dad died and I could feel my eight minutes with him... were running out.

I zipped myself all the way into the sleeping bag of myself, not because I was hurt, and not because I had broken something, but because they were cracking up.

I could tell that Mom was dreaming, but I didn't want to know what she was dreaming about, because I had enough of my own nightmares, and if she had been dreaming something happy, I would have been angry at her for dreaming something happy.

It took me as long as I had known him to get rid of all of his words. Like turning an hourglass over.

I'm interested in the kind of religion that makes life harder. I'm not so interested in the comforting kind of religion.